Tell your council not to adopt the IHRA (mis)definition
This is a copy of a letter sent by Jewish Voice for Labour to a council considering adopting the IHRA (mis)definition of antisemitism. We hope it may be of use to you if your local council is thinking...
View ArticleFSOI Labour Conference Fringe Meeting
FSOI have just issued the this statement in response to the spate of attacks on us following our successful meeting in Brighton. It is a tribute to our growing effectiveness that so much abuse is being...
View ArticleJVL triumph at Labour Conference
Mike Cushman Jewish Voice for Labour must be greatly encouraged by the reception it received at Labour Party Conference. JVL Triumph As a brand new organisation with very limited resources and no paid...
View ArticleGuilt by Association is now Labour Party Practice
Mike Cushman Professor Moshé Machover has been expelled from the Labour Party without a hearing because he spoke on the wrong platform and wrote for the wrong newspaper. What was the Labour bating...
View ArticleLabour Conference or Nuremberg Rally? Assessing the evidence
Jamie Stern-Weiner This article was first published on Jamie Stern-Weiner’s blog and is reprinted by permission of the author It was difficult to ascertain on the basis of media reports whether...
View ArticleDon’t expel Moshé Machover
Open letter to the Leader of the Labour Party Over 700 Labour Party members have added their names to the online version of this letter. You can add yours NEW Read Moshé’s devastating response to the...
View ArticleMisleading claims continue to be made about antisemitism.
Richard Hutton reprinted by permission from his blog A New Place of Exile The claims revolve primarily around the Israel-Palestine conflict. Is there a constructive way forward? A number of comment...
View ArticleEngaged in Anger about Antisemitism
Deborah Maccoby Review of Contemporary Left Antisemitism, David Hirsh, Routledge 2017 David Hirsh, besides running the Engage website, which campaigns against the academic boycott of Israel, is a...
View ArticleLabour List uses fear of offence to censor debate
When Gary Spedding sent his riposte to Emily Thornberry’s remarks on Israel’s ‘Right to Exist’ he got a surprising response. Labour List preferred censorship to debate. Fortunately, Jewish News, the UK...
View ArticleFSOI expresses grave disquiet about the handling of complaint against Tony...
This letter was sent to Iain McNicol, General Secretary of the Labour Party, on 25 November. Dear Iain McNicol Free Speech on Israel is a Jewish led group of mainly Labour Party members formed to...
View ArticleSelected Cases of Interference with Free Expression, 2017
Free Speech on Israel Palestine Solidarity Campaign This dossier records some of the more prominent cases of restriction of freedom of speech or assembly related to criticisms of the state of Israel...
View ArticleLabour smears Israel’s critics as antisemites
Free Speech on Israel is supporting the Labour against the Witch-hunt’s Lobby of the Labour Party NEC Tuesday 23 January 11.00 a.m.-1.00 p.m. Southside, 105 Victoria Street London SW1E 6QT 1. A...
View ArticleSam Semoff
Free Speech on Israel is saddened to learn of the death of Sam Semoff. Sam was a dedicated supporter of FSOI, opponent of Zionist oppression of Palestinians and a leading figure in campaigns against...
View ArticleTony Greenstein: Acerbic – yes. Antisemitic absolutely not.
Update Despite Tony Greenstein’s hostile attacks on FSOI officers following the statement posted on Sunday, we wish to make clear that FSOI unreservedly condemns the abuse of process which has been...
View ArticleMalicious smears against Labour Party General Secretary candidate Jennie Formby
Free Speech on Israel welcomes the statement from Unite defending the union’s South-East Regional Secretary Jennie Formby against antisemitism allegations. Accusations levelled against Jennie Formby by...
View ArticleExpulsions and Ongoing Suspensions
This statement about the expulsion of Tony Greenstein from the Labour Party has been issued by Jewish Voice for Labour. Free Speech on Israel fully endorses this statement. Expulsions and Ongoing...
View ArticleLabour right’s failed attempt to smear leading Jewish activist
The suspension from the Labour Party of Glyn Secker, secretary of Jewish Voice for Labour, and his hurried reinstatement, goes to the heart of attempts by Labour’s right-wing bureaucracy to drive out...
View ArticleCorbyn Under Fire
Daniel Finn writes how, for weeks, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party has been the target of a defamatory campaign meant to undermine it. He describes the agents of these attacks and their unsavoury...
View ArticleIsrael and the Labour Party: a love story
Leon Rosselson shows how the Labour Party is in a state of denial about an Israel committed to a fantasy of a two state solution to be achieved through non-existent peace talks This article is...
View ArticleFSOI regrets Ken Livingstone’s resignation from the Labour Party
Free Speech on Israel deeply regrets that Ken Livingstone has been driven out of the Labour Party by a concerted campaign of misrepresentations of what he said. FSOI has always stood beside Ken and his...
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